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September 13th, 2005, 05:11 AM
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Re: did you know that...
 Originally Posted by JernauGurgeh
tomatoes, cucumber are fruit. the fruit is the seed bearing part of a plant.
The silly one is a carrot, because the Portugese make carrot jam, and jam is defined as being made from fruit. so rather than do the obvious thing and redefine jam, which is an arbitrary definition anyway, they redefine a biological term - though only for the Directive of 2001/113/EC.
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Did you know that people dont die because of licking or tasting diamonds - thats one of the rumors that was spread to restrict workers from stealing and hiding diamonds in their mouths..If you swallow that - then its a different story altogether.
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